Publishers sue AI startup Cohere over alleged copyright infringement | TechCrunch

A consortium of fourteen publishers including Condé Nast, The Atlantic, and Forbes have filed a lawsuit against Cohere alleging that the generative AI startup has engaged in “massive, systematic” copyright infringement.

In the complaint, the publisher plaintiffs accuse Cohere of using at least 4,000 copyrighted works to train its AI models and display large portions of articles — and even entire articles — for users, harming the publishers’ referral traffic. The suit also…